RE: DNS Flag Day, Friday, Feb 1st, 2019

["Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf () dessus com>]

The best time is usually a Wednesday at Noon or 11:00 in the impacted timezone.  Of course, if the impact is worldwide 
then that would probably be UT1 :)

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The fact that there's a Highway to Hell but only a Stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Christopher
> Morrow
> Sent: Wednesday, 30 January, 2019 18:55
> To: Jim Popovitch
> Cc: nanog
> Subject: Re: DNS Flag Day, Friday, Feb 1st, 2019
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 5:41 PM Jim Popovitch via NANOG
> <nanog () nanog org> wrote:
>
>
>       On Wed, 2019-01-30 at 17:22 -0800, Matthew Petach wrote:
>       > Any chance this could wait until say the Tuesday
>       > *after* the Superbowl, when we aren't cutting an
>       > entire religion's worth of potential workers out of
>       > the workforce available to fix issues in case it
>       > turns out to be a bigger problem than is expected,
>       > and when we have less chance of annoying the
>       > vast army of football-loving fans of every sort?
>
>       IIRC, DNS Flag Day was announce way before last years Super
> Bowl...
>       what did the people who aren't ready for DNS Flag Day do in the
> past
>       364 days that they need a few more days to get ready for?
>
>
>
>
> Oh, so they had 365 days to plan the time of the event and still
> picked a friday for that event?
>
> https://www.opsview.com/resources/system-administrator/blog/three-
> reasons-why-not-make-major-it-changes-fridays
>
> I see.